The Value of Hard Work

If you want to succeed in life you need to be a hardworking person. From getting a job to excelling in school your need to make an effort. Also people will trust you more for this. As a result they will give you more leniencies. If you want something you need to be proactive and take the initiative. One area where this is particularly important is academics. If you work hard in school it will result in getting into the college you want and getting good grades. For example math doesnt come naturally to me so Ive had to study and practice to get better. Also if you get your assignments done then you will also have more free time. You also need to be determined in any job you have. Employers are looking for people who they cant trust to be responsible, hard workers. If you can show them that you can efficiently get your work done, then you will be more likely to get promotions and raises. Businesses also want hardworking people to fill their management positions. Hard work is also essential in sports. This was my first year playing softball and I loved it. I want to try out for the high school team next year, but sine Ive only played one year I ne ed a lot of practice. Ive had to work very hard to get to improve my skills. In conclusion, hard work is the only way to excel in life, especially in Sports, academics, and at a job. You cant go through life assuming that people will do your work for you or that youre not equipped to do something. You need to take charge and work hard. Never Forgetting Skills Never knowing much about FFA, my parents always encouraged me to be a part of the organization. Thinking it was so much hard work, I was intimidated by the chores that came along with raising livestock. I actually enjoy it now, thanks to this gentleman by the name of Mark Mora. Like people say, you must work your way up to the top. Well I was one of those who started in last place, to now winning many awards. There was never a thought in my mind that I would rise to the top, for there were many selfish and unhelpful people. Like lions stalking their prey, these individuals were just waiting to see the quality of livestock that would exit our trailer. Knowing it would be a difficult task to stay ahead of their game, I was still determined to make every effort to defeat them. Unlike others, Mr. Mora took the time to teach me basic techniques and showmanship skills. He pointed out the proper ways of dressing and catching the judges attention as soon as entering the ring. Finding out that there was money involved when it came to winning first through third place, I knew paying attention was the key to success. Learning new skills was not only going to require physical and intense labor, but mental focus if I wanted to be at the top with in the winners circle. Anxiety, terror, and not knowing what to expect were the feelings I had racing through my body, on my first show. It wasnt long before I quickly surpassed the competition. Coming out of the show ring with my heart beating as fast as a drum, my parents and family were proud of my first

win. Holding a buckle and a blue ribbon for the first time was the best feeling ever. All my hard work had paid off. It encouraged me to keep working hard and improve my skills of showing.

Hard work is the key to success. Nothing can be achieved without hard work. Work, work, ever work, is a great panacea. Edison worked for twenty-one hours a day. He slept only for two or three hours on the laboratory tables with his books as his pillow. Our beloved Prime Minister late Pt. Nehru, worked for seventeen hours a day and seven days a week. There were no holidays in his calendar. Mahatma Gandhi worked ceaselessly day and night and won freedom for his country. Hard work is the price that we pay for success and all the gifts of life. It has been-well said, "Heights by great man reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, They while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." Constant vigilance and preparedness to work is the price we have to pay for success in life. Work is a privilege and a pleasure; idleness is a luxury that none can afford. Man is born to work and prosper in life. He like steel, shines in use and rusts in rest. Work is worship. It exalts man if it is done honestly. Those who toll are, sooner or later, rewarded with luck and success. A man of action acts in the living present. There is no tomorrow for him. He makes the best of his time. Life is full of strife. Life is action. Activity is the law of Nature. A life of idleness is a life of shame and disgrace. Idle men are intruders on society. We are endowed with brain and limbs, which are meant to be properly exercised. Failure in life is very often due to idleness. Industry is the key to success. Industry makes and idleness mars a nation. Greatness can be achieved by great labour only. What a man earns by the sweat of his brow gives him a greater degree of satisfaction than what he gets by a stroke of fortune. Man wishes to have many things in life. Some of, them may be bestowed upon him by fortune, but to have the others he will have to work and toil; for he cannot have them for mere wish. These latter things acquired by hard toil are much sweeter than those he gets by accident. When a man earns by dint of toil; he enjoys a pleasurable sensation which is equivalent to the joy of having won a victory. Of this pleasurable sensation, the man who has been born with a silver spoon in his mouth knows nothing. A self made man is certainly happier and more esteemed, than the man who owes his fortune to the accident of his birth.

If a man regularly exercises his physical and mental organs, he, enjoys sound health which is the only wealth a man can boast of. He also builds a moral character which is too strong to yield to any temptation. During his life-time such a man is admired by all for the activities of his body and mind, and after his death, he lives in the minds of men in the deeds he did. Nobody on earth leaves a name to posterity without real work. Surely one must live a life that inspires others and gives the man impetus. A man of action and iron will carries everything before him and, instead of being controlled by circumstances, he himself will control them. What does it matter if a man lives for ninety years, and it is all a story of idleness and wasted opportunities? Jesus Christ died when he was hardly thirty, Swami Vivekananda died before he was forty, Napoleon did not live to be fifty, Lenin died before he was sixty. And yet they have their impress on human history that no octogenarian can claim. Not poverty but idleness is a great curse. If we waste time, time shall waste us. A life crammed with work is a life bubbling with the joy of success. Great men of the world were born in cottages but they died in palaces. America's famous President Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in the forest. He could not afford a lamp and read borrowed books with the light of the fire in the hearth. And yet by dint of hard work, he rose to be the greatest man of his time. Stalin, the late Prime Minister of Russia, was the son of a mere cobbler. To sum up, greatness and success lie in hard, honest and selfless Work.